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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Day Of The Girl

It was International Day of the Girl on October 11th. I didn't write anything about it here. I thought about it. I had half-composed blog posts in my mind full of facts and statistics and calls to action that were just waiting to be typed.

But I was busy that day with my own girl...

Sitting together, heads close, reading a science book.

Reciting times tables.

Laying side by side on the bed, legs entwined in the air, matching socks touching, as we wrote morning pages.

Because one in nine girls, or 15 MILLION, has been forced into marriage between the ages of 10 and 14.

Because if things don't change, 100 million girls will marry as children in the next decade.

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Did you talk about International Day of the Girl with your kids?

For more information about child marriage, and how education is the key to freedom, visit CARE's International Day of the Girl page...because ending child marriage and advocating education for girls is something that needs to happy every day.

YOu said it right on Tracy...thank you. And spending time with you girl....teaching her she is not less than an amazing gift is the best.....that every girl around the globe should get that...each life a gift....I love your gentle spirit....

I read about the story of Malala Yousafzai with such sorrow, that children have there childhood taken away from them at such a young age, where they are forced to deal with the cold realities of an adult world when the should be playing.

Amazing post, Tracie. My Grandmother was married at 3. My Mother was married at 13 - and so were my aunts. I know how they felt - they didn't even have a choice. My Mother had a life of abuse at her in-laws place for five years before she and I miraculously returned to my maternal Grandmother's house.

Today, I support a girls' orphanage with around a 100 girls of varying ages from 3 to 18.